Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

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The blue reminds me of a cockerel I had the first season of breeding my originals. He is larger than any of the others hatched at the same time as he was.

I love the deepness of the coloring and the crest on this guy though.....

 

[NotAFarm]

Despite the daytime high of 71 degrees yesterday, it is July is Illinois and you know what that means?! Sweet Corn!! I got some at the farmers market this morning that was picked earlier today. Guess who gets the cobs......




....and as promised, the pictures of the other broodies with their chicks....each got two eggs and each hatched them both. What good mommas!!

Gerpla with her two...


Glima with her two....


Gunnar with her two...


I will get some better ones when they are able to get into the daylight. They don't like the camera flash inside their some broody coops so they weren't cooperating much.

 

[RedIII]

Thanks Mary. Yes, I love his feathers. He's such a pretty boy to look at. My other boys are pretty, but they're not as colorful as Sven. They don't have his good personality, either. He's definitely my first pick of the three.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I have been fooled by a pullet or two that gets wattles early, but usually the cockerels have them quite young. The other thing is color pattern.

I too have been fooled by getting combs/wattles early. Briet had very prominent comb/wattles and she is a hen.

 

[LittleChickSpy]

I love all the pictures! Here are my 17. They are 3.5 weeks now & got booted from my kitchen yesterday, to the small coop on my porch. I have several clear cockerels, a few I'm unsure about, and several I am fairly certain are pullets. There are 3 I am completely unsure of right now, but if forced to guess (and, clearly, I'm only forcing myself, haha), I'd say I have 9 cockerels and 8 pullets. And, if I'm right, I have no idea which cockerels to keep. There are 3-4 I am really drawn to. Peg is still cockerel #1 for me, though, based on his personality. He's also crested and has very different coloring than any other chick. Maybe I should just keep only him & be done with that decision?

 

[NotAFarm]

I love all the pictures! Here are my 17. They are 3.5 weeks now & got booted from my kitchen yesterday, to the small coop on my porch. I have several clear cockerels, a few I'm unsure about, and several I am fairly certain are pullets. There are 3 I am completely unsure of right now, but if forced to guess (and, clearly, I'm only forcing myself, haha), I'd say I have 9 cockerels and 8 pullets. And, if I'm right, I have no idea which cockerels to keep. There are 3-4 I am really drawn to. Peg is still cockerel #1 for me, though, based on his personality. He's also crested and has very different coloring than any other chick. Maybe I should just keep only him & be done with that decision?

What a beautiful flock you have!! Are the two with black on their heads and down their necks (lower right of pic) pullets or cockerels?

 

[LittleChickSpy]

Those 2?
The whiteish one is a cockerel for sure (that's Peg), and the greyish/brownish one is a pullet, I think. My husband named that one Bjork a few weeks ago.

There is one who was a lighter chipmunk that is feathering out similarly to her, so fr (kind of in the middle of the pic there), and I pretty sure he's a cockerel. He would be my #2, I think, if I keep 2 boys. He's rosecombish looking. I alaso really love the one right behind Peg there, and it's one of the 3 I have no idea on, but it's absolutely the biggest a-hole of the bunch, haha. My silver, charcoal, an black chicks are looking very girly. The black one has black everything, but tiny white pinstripes on her breast and around her neck. She's looking pretty neat, I think. So much more fun to me than knowing what they're going to look like all grown up.

 

[LittleChickSpy]

Haha, I say they're all looking girly as though I have any idea at all what I'm looking for and talking about.

 

[NotAFarm]

Icelandics are such a challenge when it comes to figuring out what their final plumage will be. I hope your black girl turns out to be as good as my Forsaela. She came to me from kathyinmo with a group of German New Hampshires. What a great momma she was....

Shortly after she arrived...


Two months later...



July 12, 2013 with her second brood of chicks......

 

[LittleChickSpy]